ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

Even non commercial fan projects can legally backfire, like that one Metroid fan game.

[exotic thicket]

I suppose but if you take it down when asked you're not gonna get too deep into shit :P

[loud panther]

Yea but first of all, these guys are not EA or Ubisoft. They always seemed to be very humble

[exotic thicket]

If you're not planning on making any money from this you're probably reasonably safe

[drowsy snow]

AFAIK start point don't need to be visible for line trace debugs to show.

[drowsy snow]

Still, do it at your own risk.

[exotic thicket]

Yeah, you could get a C&D for it at any point for any reason... but if you follow the C&D, you're unlikely to get into any real trouble for it

[dawn gull]

I don't know if I can agree with that, when the line source gets a tiny bit off screen the entire line goes away and it's really annoying

[plush yew]

does anyone want to work together to make a small un professional game?

i am a 3d artist

[drowsy snow]

I disagree, but I haven't tested my hitscanning system for a while, so my memory is kinda lousy on that.

[loud panther]

Yea i guess. ill just try to make it as safe as possible, build a external launcher that check for the game in steam and then downloads the project and installs it. the dev of medianXL (diablo 2 mod) did it like that and it hasnt backfired

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions on how to post on job listing channels (or #game-jam-lfg if you're working on game jam project)

[plush yew]

its not game jam

i just want to make a small game with someone who can code

to get better and have some fun

[drowsy snow]

Again, see #instructions on how to post on the job channels, and read on each job channels' description.

[dawn gull]

@drowsy snow I got a recording of it, idk if its because of the camera frame but if you know why it does this that would be helpful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaympmxxHOg

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow if i was using enum based state machine swamping

do i have to do it with the gates node

to get adequate results for swamping between states?

https://gyazo.com/413a3e1028abc88b37b08481ce79191d

this kind of stuff

[shadow ravine]

Does anyone know how I can resolve this hair issue with meta human? Looks fine in viewport but when I play it's seems like the camera is either too far away and can't load the LODs or I'm missing something. But when the camera is zoomed in a little the hair appears but the movement goes all strange

[prime willow]

i kind of jsut want a simple way to swamp bewteen the curent and set enum based states ;-;

[drowsy snow]

Sounds like similar issue someone had a while ago in #metahumans

[drowsy snow]

Mantling? Brb checking on ALS for reference

[prime willow]

not just mantling but any enum based state machine swamping

i want something simplier than what i have there ._.

it works but its really floofing annoying to have to setup an update system for if the enum is running than a swamp than a comfirm than opening and closing 4 sets of gates than re updating than entering another state :/

and thats without even touching the functionality

im sure simplier state machines based on enums can be formed

[onyx warren]

👋 Hey would be the best place to ask for Blueprint / Graphing Questions

[prime willow]

^ here would be the best place

actually listen to lorash

[drowsy snow]

#blueprint for logic BP
#graphics for material BP
#animation for animation BP

[prime willow]

he has bigger brain than me

[onyx warren]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/8qdmdb33/

This is what I have

I want to get the distance of a player to the center of the shield

Its like a battle royale

if they are outside the shield something happens

But it seems to be ghosting out

or have an incorrect value

That x10 is for the mesh size

Apox Size is 20x19x20

Radius of player sphere?

or pawn

Oh wait

you mean

make a invisible sphere from the player location

of 3000

with the shield sphere of 3000

and checking if they are further apart?

[drowsy snow]

I mean, you could make some simple switch compare in the state transition

[prime willow]

well i found a sort of silly but simple way if this works

[onyx warren]

wouldent the player location be enough tho?

Why 2 spheres?

[prime willow]

make enum make a macro with a switch on node to swamp between which one is currently happening

[onyx warren]

That's the radius of the visible sphere in the sky

with ComponentGetBounds

[plush yew]

Guys, any idea why a video ( .wmv ) placed in Movies folder, wont play or start in a packaged windows project>?

[onyx warren]

oki

[plush yew]

This is what i have for the video bp

i tried mp4, didnt work, so someone mentioned it had to be .wmv

so what format? .mp4?

?

How odd, so mp4 is best format?

🤔

ok

[onyx warren]

Drawing the debug sphere rn

[shadow ravine]

Does anyone know how to zoom the camera in slightly on ALS?

[onyx warren]

Nothing shows up

No that was not the entire code

hm

can't see a debug sphere anywhere

even if enabled

[drowsy snow]

And more cross platform to boot.

[plush yew]

pardon? what do you mean

[plush yew]

LOL you trying to make a br game mode for ark?

[onyx warren]

found it

[onyx warren]

Yap

I'm being paid a lot of $$$ and i have a deadline to fix this shield in 2 hrs

Seems the sphere is bigger

???

the debug sphere

So when i do / 1.5

it almost works perfectly

ARK is weird.

[plush yew]

Ark Editor is wierd and dated

[plush yew]

so its just a format issue you think?

Ark 2 will be using UE5 thank god.

[onyx warren]

1.71 works fine

[plush yew]

Moding will be so much fun 🙂

[onyx warren]

Logic error in ark prob

cause this is the only math function

Z coordinate is the height

[broken spire]

still even after all that exceeds register index :/

[onyx warren]

Nothing different

I'll try 2.0

nope.

[broken spire]

I have no idea, I'm just trying to get my material to show up

basically just wanted this

but it doesn't take material functions WITH a texture, so I had to convert all of them to material functions

[sleek fable]

Hi, sorry to break into a chat 😮 I`m sitting here updating my computer. and wonder if I should go with i9 or i7 12th gen ?
will UE handle all cores on the i9, or is it a waste of money ? Thanx for any input 🙂

[onyx warren]

I just added / Square 3

[olive flume]

i create a new unreal enge city who help me

[onyx warren]

And it's actually Sqrt 3

[olive flume]

answer me

[drowsy snow]

#hardware

[sleek fable]

thanx 😄

[olive flume]

i create new city who help me

[broken spire]

@plush yew So is there something I am missing with shared samplers? What are they?

[drowsy snow]

I already suggested you to try out shared samplers.

[olive flume]

it is my anydesk ID 597 593 419

[drowsy snow]

Shared Samplers can go up to 128 samplers.

[broken spire]

Ahh okay, there was so much going on in the chat I'm sorry, is there a guide for that?

[rotund scroll]

plenty

[exotic thicket]

did he just post an ID to connect to his pc via some remote desktop program?

[rotund scroll]

there's a whole pool of tutorials for almost all material related issues out there

[exotic thicket]

that seems secure...

[drowsy snow]

Dismiss him.

[exotic thicket]

... nice

[drowsy snow]

Scambaiting intensifies

[olive flume]

i know

[broken spire]

this?!

[olive flume]

i am confused on ue4 please help me and this is my 597 593 419 ID

[rotund scroll]

well we all know that a strong desire to build unreal enge city will trump any risk assessment of file deletion

[exotic thicket]

@olive flume Nobody is going to connect to that... you need to provide info here if you want help

[onyx warren]

So

if sqrt 3 fixes it

should i keept like that?

[drowsy snow]

Screw it.
<@&213101288538374145>

[broken spire]

Okay I'll give it a try lol

[olive flume]

how to create neon light in ue4

[rotund scroll]

imagine if you asked google that instead of here

I bet there'd be at least 10 tutorials

[olive flume]

i know but google now show me best result

[onyx warren]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/n1nywtny/

There's the new bp

[rotund scroll]

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+create+neon+light+in+ue4&pws=0&gl=us&gws_rd=cr what exactly isn't "best result" among these?

[onyx warren]

Oh no! don't ever do that in ark

[olive flume]

bro how to covert blueprint image to code

[onyx warren]

or else your game will be 0.00001FPS

even server die

ARK has weird actor references

[rotund scroll]

bro don't bro me bro

[onyx warren]

they messed with the code.

they even hacked the structs

[grave aspen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45HW6hsJzQ

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/converting-blueprints-to-c-code/109706

[olive flume]

i think you are girl

[olive flume]

Thanks Bro

[grave aspen]

sorry, my point was these are top google results

[broken spire]

OMG THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

They're not amazing, but they're showing up and I can work with this and make it better from here!

[rotund scroll]

I think the issue here is that our friend wants an easy solution that requires no learning

[grave aspen]

^_^

[plush yew]

Oh you got it working? Congrats man!

[broken spire]

Thanks dude!!

Looks like coffee beans but I know how to make them show up better but now I can sleep!!!

[plush yew]

Welcome to the complicated spaghetti blueprint system of ue 😄

[prime willow]

is it less or more costly to use event tick instead of your own event tick?

[broken spire]

omg I just needed to change one drop down menu lol, it feels really good learning that lol

[rotund scroll]

indeed, what

[grave aspen]

tick is tick is tick, you can choose at what intervals it ticks, but yea, no difference

[prime willow]

performance wise if you setup an update event function instead of using update tick would you save on performance?

oh

im stupid

https://tenor.com/view/boom-anime-wow-amaze-surprise-gif-7257186

[rotund scroll]

yeah I'm not getting this

[prime willow]

o.o

i get it

[plush yew]

DOnt forget to get the free for the month! https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/assets?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0&tag=4910

There is cloud shaders 😄

[broken spire]

😮

Oh yep! Got em 😄

[plush yew]

Last month had landscape displacement

you could of added that to your sand, via material functions

[broken spire]

oooh I'm digging these subtle cracks

Yeah I'll look into buying that tool as well, it seems really powerful

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/adv-disp-landscape-materials this?

I will buy this too!! That's amazing

[drowsy snow]

Quixel Megascans also worth checking out. Since you're Unreal Engine licencee, you're entitled to get their entire libraries for free.

Though I'm going to assume you're already used it.

[plush yew]

yupp depreciated.

[broken spire]

I wasn't aware it was apart of EU4? Is it?

[grave aspen]

for now

[broken spire]

UE** omg lol

So I can just start using megascans too? 😮

[rotund scroll]

I wonder if that engine will crash if you cut its supply lines 🤔

[broken spire]

Yeah that was years ago, but I need an ELI5 version of these licenses they're worded in a way that just sounds like someones filling up time in their presentation, but the presentation lasts for days

[onyx warren]

The next challange is going to be generating a point in a 3d sphere

But that's something that is out of my learning curve.

[drowsy snow]

Long story short: You can use Quixel Megascans assets for free, so long as the final renders are achieved with Unreal Engine.

[broken spire]

again can't thank everyone enough for all the help today, lots of good advice too

[prime willow]

No thank you for giving unreal a whole hearted chance~

[shadow ravine]

I think I've just broke my project I was working on a metahuman character trying to disable the hair animation which I just resolved. Then when I tried a standalone run the game crashed but still worked fine in the viewport. So I thought I'd try an engine restart, now it won't even open 😩 this is the error I'm getting, but if anyone knows how I can resolve this I'd be over the moon otherwise I've just lost a whole days work 😭

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/hideri-hideri-kanzaki-hideri-hanzaki-anime-hug-hug-gif-21152269

[drowsy snow]

That being said, though, Quixel Mixer, which is their procedural texturing tool, is totally free.

[shadow ravine]

Assertion failed: (Index >= 0) & (Index < ArrayNum) [File:D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers/Array.h] [Line: 703]
Array index out of bounds: 2 from an array of size 2

[plush yew]

I know this is pricey, but this is worth every single penny. I used it in all my ue4 projects. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/infinity-weather

[prime willow]

my personal advice is make a backup or save the backup anytime you think you may or may not lose more than 3+ hours of work lol

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, I mean, if Unreal wasn't this generous, I'd be fighting with Unity by now lmao

[prime willow]

same ._.

[drowsy snow]

The moment UE4 goes free, I know where I'm going.

[shadow ravine]

Stress, I used to do it once a day but I guess that's not worked out well for me

[plush yew]

dude, when i play the packaged project on another PC, the video wont play, but the video plays on the pc that i packaged the video file

perhaps i have to include the video somewhere? In a directory or something?

I did not even look at the ue5 licensing agreement yet.. i hope its not like a 20/80 cut @ 200k

[drowsy snow]

There's also Ultra Dynamic Sky, which is the similar thing.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ultra-dynamic-sky

(I personally built my weather system from scratch tho)

[plush yew]

perhaps UE4 packages the thing with specific directory ? please help me man

@drowsy snow 🙏

[next badger]

Is there a way to "dissolve" redirect node?

[stable path]

I think it's 12 percent after 1 mil? idk

[broken spire]

So true, every time before I do anything, even if I'm moving a project or zipping it up to share, I make a backup.

[drowsy snow]

It has to be in Content/Movie

[plush yew]

I forgot he added landscape dispancemnt

[plush yew]

it is there bro,

however when packaged, it plays on the PC i packaged on, but not on other Pc's

[onyx warren]

function getPoint() {
    var theta = Math.random() * 2.0*Math.PI;
    var phi = Math.random() * Math.PI;
    var r = 3000;
    var sinTheta = Math.sin(theta); var cosTheta = Math.cos(theta);
    var sinPhi = Math.sin(phi); var cosPhi = Math.cos(phi);
    var x = r * sinPhi * cosTheta;
    var y = r * sinPhi * sinTheta;
    var z = r * cosPhi;

    return {x: x, y: y, z: z};
}

console.log(getPoint());

That's the code i use to make my coordinate

I converted it into BP

but i'm unsure where i plug my Center Point

like XYZ 100,500,0

for example

[drowsy snow]

Maybe the project settings?
I don't use video files at all (my game has completely real time cinematics), so not know much about it.

[next badger]

@plush yewcodecs are installed?

[plush yew]

Thanks for trying, ill give that a look

[plush yew]

yes 😦

its a simple .mp4 video man

[next badger]

"simple" mp4

[plush yew]

its like, the video doesnt package with the packaged game

[drowsy snow]

In reality, MP4 is a rather wild format.

[onyx warren]

Would i do

[next badger]

if it plays on your pc when packaged - it is packaged

[onyx warren]

Center Point + Random point in sphere

[regal mulch]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/893621/packaging-movies.html

Does any of the answer help you?

[drowsy snow]

I do worked as a video editor before.

[next badger]

mp4 is a container, it's not a video codec

[plush yew]

perhaps i have to enable this? under startup movies :
https://i.gyazo.com/439aafb4786e91b09c23a3be59e5fa50.png

array

[regal mulch]

Startup Movies is something else

[plush yew]

yes but only plays on my pc, not on the other one ? :/

[regal mulch]

They are the videos you see when the game starts, before you get put into the startup map

You might simply not package it properly

Check the answerhub post I sent

[drowsy snow]

Either the codec and/or packaging settings.

[plush yew]

ok ill have a look

If you used assets from the asset store and your game makes 1 million, do you have to pay the asset provider as well? or what ever the base cost was thats it, its yours.

ah ok so it is in project settings... okokokokok ill give this a try

[drowsy snow]

I think not. By the clause, you already pay for the licence to use Marketplace assets.

[next badger]

@plush yewno...it's in EULA

[plush yew]

good to know... i spent thousands on premade crap.

[drowsy snow]

Well, POM is another way to do it. Last Of Us 2 did go with POM route.

[next badger]

"premade crap" (c) @fierce tulip =)))))

[plush yew]

Its not even like its crap tho, like premade walls telephone poles, etc. And LOTS of animations from packs. If the pack has solid anims, I will buy it just to retarget it.

[plush yew]

ok ill test now, thanks for the solution 🙏

Just got this one yesterday

AAA quality.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fps-starter-pack-01

[next badger]

it's ok, most of the stuff on MP is low quality I agree

[plush yew]

These animations are way to good for it to be 50

[regal mulch]

we have #fab for this stuff

And no, you don't have to pay the creator

You pay it once and it's yours until they discontinue it, at which point you will have to port it to newer versions yourself

[plush yew]

okay sorry bud 🙂

that makes sense

[regal mulch]

And if $50 is not enough or too much is subjective

They sell this to lots of peeps, which all use the same anims at that point

A unique animation for your game is def a lot more pricey

[drowsy snow]

I have to check one of ND's presentations again, but I guess masking is render target.

Let me scour through my bookmark, brb

[plush yew]

just learned yesterday there is a search button there lol

[drowsy snow]

https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2020/index.html
I forgot if there's an exact talk about the snow trails, but I think this is the one about the environmental stuff. (ND's presentation is the last one)

[plush yew]

Question about retargeting to another bone, I am trying to retarget animations from one M4 to another m4 with no animations. Should i create virtual bones, with the same names as the original, so it will allow the animation to play?

[drowsy snow]

In most cases (that I know), VBs are mainly for anim BPs and not necessarily for anim sequences, but I'd copy the virtual bones just to be safe.

[plush yew]

okay

I never knew you can retarget these anims.

You learn something new everyday 🙂

[stable path]

Is there a way to get keyboard Input while the Input mode is UI Only?

[drowsy snow]

I learned the hard way with ALS lol

[stable path]

I'm trying to make a UI Widget appear when I press a key and then disappear again

I can get it to appear

But I'm also setting the Input Mode to UI Only

So it can't get the input to hide the widget, it gets stuck

[plush yew]

Im talking about the actual gun animations and not the animation of the arms or 3p, like clip exit, shoot, idle, reload

[stable path]

Unfortunately, that requires the mode to not be UI-only

Yeah, that could work

Gonna have to try that

[onyx warren]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/um6y_g-q/

Something is not right

and it's always returning a point that is higher

Thoes are the points

[plush yew]

hey dude, so i tried the solution and the video still isnt playing

i checked multiple things btw

included movies and directories

Are you trying to get the radius location? scale? or what.

https://i.gyazo.com/91eb287c29fd01d6b171771733ebfdff.png

errr is that the right way or, do i just write the name without the directory of the file? <_<

[onyx warren]

Random point inside the sphere

to teleport the player inside of

so they are not close to each other.

[plush yew]

lol

[onyx warren]

wow

i was overcomplicating myself

[plush yew]

lmfaoooo

i took a battleroyale course on udemy as my first ever how to tutorial

[onyx warren]

get random multiplyer

doesnt exist

[plush yew]

hmm hold on

[onyx warren]

Seems this worked

i'd like them spaced out tho

[inland gyro]

hey guys, whats name this node? sorry for bad English

[onyx warren]

Some are also spawning the code

[plush yew]

just copying from an old project

[onyx warren]

wut's that

[plush yew]

thats the "get random multiplier" function

[onyx warren]

oh k

[plush yew]

i cant seem to play videos in my packaged .exe no matter what

its not a .apk, its a .exe windows file

i followed suggestions and solutions here

theres one final solution, someone mentioned to do it via a 3D widget

[plush yew]

Blend Poses by bool.

i tried both .mp4, and .wmv

surely i must be missing something?

[inland gyro]

thx

[plush yew]

You want blend poses by int

[plush yew]

i followed those solutions, they didnt work :C, also the game is not a .pak its a .exe

[drowsy snow]

Maybe #packaging folks have some knowledge on it?

[onyx warren]

not working

[plush yew]

hmmm

idk then

[regal mulch]

UE4 uses .pak files

Has nothing to do with .exe

[plush yew]

https://i.gyazo.com/2a3a4bec6f26687df9805853e534f632.png

?

[regal mulch]

Yeah but your cooked content is usually stored in pak files

at least if your packaging is setup that way

[plush yew]

ah right

sorry if i have these checked, is one of these the culprit?

https://i.gyazo.com/3b2a6351502cd60d86152892d44751c6.png

[regal mulch]

Cook only maps could do something

Depends on if your video is somewhat referenced by map

[plush yew]

exclude editor content? ... i mean, i have movie file specifically included?
https://i.gyazo.com/98605e64fe51ef1acacc10e4a51b5490.png

[regal mulch]

You can also try to add it to the extra folders to cook

Also remove the space in the video name

Spaces are bad

[plush yew]

ok removed spaces

[digital anchor]

you said it was on a movie folder but youre selecting a desktop file, select that one instead

[ornate forge]

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573

[plush yew]

you mean ... From the content folder in explorer itself? and not desktop https://i.gyazo.com/76263ad1b51dcec33c5e9623fa671ee8.png ?

[onyx warren]

this is ?

Oooo

[plush yew]

u mean from this? https://i.gyazo.com/393821dfb53c50f2cd26d1fd6197d0bd.png

???

OOOoooOO

OH I SEE

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-face-palm-seriously-exasperated-gif-7304550

[plush yew]

thanks bro. 😂 👍

[onyx warren]

That's outside

I want it inside

Its like on the surface

Random from 0 to max radius?

Like completely insie

but not touching border

nice ty

can i seperate the dots

a bit further than eachother

thoes are players btw

[inland gyro]

Sorry to ask again but what is the name of this node?

thxx

[jade surge]

The latter. Usually use perforce github or source tree/bit bucket are the main 3 I see used.

[plush yew]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/MultiUserEditing/Reference/

[steel lava]

Question, I'm trying to set up a system where hovering your cursor over an object causes your mouse cursor to change. I have no clue what I'm messing up. lol

[hollow moat]

Wtf I installed the ue5 .net updates it recommended, then my pc crashed and now I can’t connect to the internet…?

[steel lava]

Thanks!

[devout whale]

Is there a way to make the chaos vehicle responsible in the same manner as rocket league is? I now have the jump and rolls functioning, but the driving is really sluggish. When you click the "w" key in Rocket League, it goes straight away, but when I press it in Choas Engine, it starts slowly and then picks up speed.

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow if i wanted to merge assets

so they all use the same variables and systems and components

would i do so by not only compiling the code into the same places

but also making sure things like variables and function names are the same if they do similiar things?

[heavy lion]

Hello everyone 🙂
I have a small question about something!
Let's imagine that we take a sound that comes from youtube and without doing so on purpose it is copyrighted, for an indie developer what do we risk on the game?

[prime willow]

Prison

The gainal grape kind of Prison lmao

Do not do illegal things when selling commerical games youre playing with fire

you either get away with it like triple A companies because no one suspects billionaire companies to literally steal from no bodies lmao

but as an indie people watch you with a keen eye especially if you do really good so your risk is much higher

[spare kernel]

if you do use it, just be prepared to fork out $$$$$

[prime willow]

Well thats if he gets lucky xD

might still get prison time with the fine

[spare kernel]

depends what it is 😛

[prime willow]

after the settlement or court hearing

[spare kernel]

country also

[prime willow]

true true

big wise kaos ❤️

[heavy lion]

So, it is better to privatize the sounds available on the market place on UE

[prime willow]

yup

[spare kernel]

or make your own

[prime willow]

or buy a sound software thats super easy to use

theres aa binch of them that are out atm that make music making easy with real instrument sound files

:3

[spare kernel]

even if it sounds similar, if you can prove you made it

[prime willow]

^

[spare kernel]

but that is tricky sometimes 🙂

[prime willow]

or pull a license and youll be fine

[heavy lion]

Thank you for your informations!

As well as the assets used in the game, they should be put in credits?

[spare kernel]

dependss

[prime willow]

yeah good question do i have to credit marketplace assets?

if i buy them of course

[spare kernel]

if you buy them from market place, no

[prime willow]

guess i made every literal inch of my game >O>

[spare kernel]

it all depends on that license agreement

[heavy lion]

and if not there is a site for video game where we buy a liscence and we can use all the sounds of the library

[spare kernel]

there are websites out there that offer paid or royalty free audio.

most important part is "royalty free" if your getting free stuff

[heavy lion]

so if the song is Royalty free

i can use without problem ?

[spare kernel]

under the agreements of the licence (if any) that comes with it

[rotund scroll]

read the license it is released under

that is the alpha and omega

[spare kernel]

sometimes they require you to credit them

[drowsy snow]

Wait, wdym by merging assets?

[heavy lion]

perfect, thanks for all your informations 🙂

[spare kernel]

i am no lawyer, if you need lawyer advice, hire a lawyer or ask a law person 🙂

just to clarify

[heavy lion]

https://www.epidemicsound.com I will visit this website

maybe i can found my dream 🙂

[prime willow]

like if i buy dynamic wall run
but also some shooting system and i want the systems to become one merged component for example and flow as if its a single asset

[drowsy snow]

If you can buy the licence, then go for it.

[prime willow]

would i make sure the variables match if used the same way and mix up functions that do the same thing so their literally interwired for example

[heavy lion]

i need this licence ?

[prime willow]

or just make sure they use the same variables but their sitting in the same component for eaxmple

[drowsy snow]

About that...
It's a bit difficult to merge different marketplace BP logics. Many things has to be modified to unite them.

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[heavy lion]

51.94$ per month

damn

[prime willow]

well yes i know alot of stuff need to be unified im just asking what the process would be

[heavy lion]

I will see later lol

[prime willow]

if i wanted it in one component but still seperate as their own function sort of

[drowsy snow]

Well, mainly on variable names, functions/macros, interfaces.

[prime willow]

ah

so like a standard intregration

but with extra steps

for stuff that wont copy over x3

that sounds not that bad at all

thank you ❤️

[shadow ravine]

Managed to rebuild my lost work much faster than I had expected luckily. Made my back up this time. Now I'm trying to remove the empty LOD slots on my metahuman's hair. Runs fine in the viewport, then when I run standalone the entire game crashes then if I close the project it then becomes un-openable then I'm back to the start from my backup to try and workout how I can resolve this. Anyone got any ideas?

[hollow moat]

What is the correct way to manage my level state?

Let's say I have a button somewhere in my level and I want that to change some state on the entire level, what should that look like?

Something something event dispatchers?

If I have an event on my level blueprint, how can I call that from some blueprint within the level?

[drowsy snow]

Something something blueprint interface is also a solid way to do cross BP communication.
I normally avoid doing anything in level BP. I prefer having a stray, invisible, actor BP that "masterminded" parts of the level.

[rotund scroll]

... so, a level blueprint but hidden away so it's not easily accessible? why?

[exotic thicket]

I guess you do get the flexibility of easily moving it to another level if you so desire, and the ability to configure settings directly on the actor instance for example if you want to test some setting so you don't have to override the default in the class

[rotund scroll]

you'd at the bare minimum have to repair broken connections and missing variables. if we were talking about a subsystem then maybe, but even then subsystems are by nature restricted in management

I don't understand people's fear of the level blueprint

[exotic thicket]

yeah to me it seems fine, was just thinking what benefits you get from an actor

to me the configurability of settings via the details panel would be the most important thing but not necessarily a big deal depending on things

[drowsy snow]

Because it's not as flexible as (what I'd call) "mastermind" actor BPs, especially with more modular kind of gameplay or open world levels.

[rotund scroll]

what kind of flexibility are you missing?

[drowsy snow]

Also I find referencing to the "mastermind" actor BP much easier than referencing to level BP.

[exotic thicket]

I like subsystems :D

...but they should really be better exposed in editor, now you have to use UDeveloperSettings for trivial things which while not complicated is still a bit of a hassle

[rotund scroll]

subsystems are great, but you don't have subsystems per level

[drowsy snow]

Basically more persistent variables and whatnot, independent of the level it resides, and reusability.

[hollow moat]

@rotund scroll So how would you suggest I approach my problem? The docs aren't really make sense to me

[drowsy snow]

If your game is super linear, then level BP is fine. I guess.

[rotund scroll]

sounds like it would be easier to use the game instance to keep track of global variables

yeah I was going to say

the neat thing about the level blueprint is that it can take event dispatchers from actors and convert them to events inside the level blueprint

for instance if you press a button, you could have the OnButtonPressed event show up directly in the level blueprint

no additional bindings required

[hollow moat]

That's exactly what I want

But I don't know how to set that up

Does the evnet dispatcher go on the button or the level

[rotund scroll]

the button

[hollow moat]

Then the custom event goes on the level?

[exotic thicket]

level bp is nice for level-specific logic, like in my shooter project it's pretty handy to do level specific "scripting" there

but I don't use level bp at all in my video rental store game since it's very systems-based

[rotund scroll]

what you do in the level blueprint is: select the actor, right click inside the level blueprint, find the correct delegate under create event for actor ref <name>

every game has different needs

but for level specific logic (generally games where level design is king) level blueprints are great for visibility

[hollow moat]

I'm thinking something like

[Actor]
Interacted -> Dispatch Event

[Level]
Receive Event -> Update state -> etc

[rotund scroll]

pretty much

[hollow moat]

How do I receive the event in the level then?

[obsidian nimbus]

usually you dont need the level

[hollow moat]

I think it makes sense to use the level

[rotund scroll]

I just told you

[rotund scroll]

this

[hollow moat]

It's nice to get easy reference to the objects

[obsidian nimbus]

can levels use interfaces? 😛

i have no clue

[rotund scroll]

they can

[plush yew]

I got a problem guys

[hollow moat]

Ok that looks like it's going nicely

gimme 1 sec to confirm it works

[plush yew]

I just figure out i have 4.27.1

And i can't go back

to 4.27.0

Any ideas?

How i could do that?

[hollow moat]

@rotund scroll Yes perfect!!

[plush yew]

My Co-Workers are on 4.27.0

[hollow moat]

That's exactly what I wanted

That's super simple

So this is my actor

[obsidian nimbus]

yea that ref option is super handy in lvl bp

[rotund scroll]

generally that's the workflow. any time that dispatcher is called the level event will work in the level blueprint

[hollow moat]

Then this is my level

Works a treat

[obsidian nimbus]

cuz everything is tied to the map

[rotund scroll]

you can also pass parameters to the level blueprint that way, and make it the "level manager" in that sense

[hollow moat]

Yea that's the idea I had

[drowsy snow]

Shouldn't matter much upgrading to 4.27.1, but you can build the engine yourself from 4.27.0 commit.

[exotic thicket]

Is there a specific reason you want to go back to .0 ? The minor releases should be compatible with each other and the differences mainly in bugfixes and such

[plush yew]

i can't

I don't have the option anymore

I just deleted the actual [4.27.1] version

And after that still

4.27.1 was the single one who appeard there

[rotund scroll]

short of contacting epic I don't think you can work your way back. unless you reinstall or revert back via your source control

[drowsy snow]

Does asking your coworker to upgrade to 4.27.1 is not an option?

[plush yew]

They can't actually that's strange

[exotic thicket]

Just get your coworker to zip up their UE install, that oughta do it :P

[plush yew]

No one see's 4.27.1

Just me

[rotund scroll]

tell them they are living in the past

[plush yew]

=]]]

[rotund scroll]

😎

[exotic thicket]

But yeah you should be fine to be on .1 even if they are on .0

[plush yew]

Yeap

But i can't use Unity multi user tool

Cuz of that

[drowsy snow]

I have yet to encounter cross hotfix issue, back when I accidentally upgrade my vanilla 4.26 to 4.26.2, while my source build was still in 4.26.0

[rotund scroll]

yes they can, and it's one of the places where for instance a save system interface makes a lot of sense to have

[drowsy snow]

Either tell your coworkers to try upgrading the editor (it has to be fully closed before the option to upgrade appear in launcher), or just ask them to send their copy of the editor to you.

[rotund scroll]

have you asked in the unreal 5 section of the discord?

seems more apt

[frail star]

Oh sorry! My bad

I'll post there, sorry again!

[exotic thicket]

I had that issue at one point with EGL too where it just would not show the new version

I had to make sure everything was fully closed and then it finally allowed it to update :P

[hollow moat]

This is what I was trying to make 😄

Can finally make some progress now...

😄

[copper pier]

I have a question, I want to edit the default game mode for my game, not change which game mode im using, but I cannot find the file to edit anywhere in my project.

I understand how to make a new one I want to edit the default one that is created as part of the project

[drowsy snow]

Are you making C++ project? Blank BP project don't have its own game mode created for the project.

[copper pier]

yes it is a C++ project

[drowsy snow]

Are you using Visual Studio / Rider IDE? It should be immediately visible in the solution browser.

Should be named as something like YourProjectGameModeBase in your project's module folder.

[copper pier]

ah in the module folder thqanks, i am using VS

appriciate it

[compact patio]

anyone knows why after building my light no light does actually work, i mean it just dark after building

[plush yew]

I got a question in marketplace if anyone can answer it for me.

#fab message

[rotund scroll]

doubt anyone here is a legal expert

I'd certainly not assume that you own any rights to anything whatsoever

I would not assume that

you are assuming there hasn't been a deal with a proprietor

just because something exists in a game doesn't mean that it didn't have to be licensed

several real life locations are licensed and require hefty sums to be used in games, for instance

(or movies for that matter)

getting mad != getting into legal trouble

how so? you're saying "just do it anyway lol who cares about legal consequences"

my point is that you don't know if they paid licensing fees for whomever for whatever. that information isn't usually public.

I mean your point doesn't make sense

I'm saying it's better to err on the side of caution when it comes to legality

I don't care if it is

I'm saying be careful

maybe you're just not understanding the argument

do your research

find out what you own

or what you dont own

etc.

sometimes it's just reading the licensing agreement, sometimes it's more

but just as a blanket statement saying "lol just copy it nobody cares" is definitely not something I'd recommend to anyone

uh huh

[drowsy snow]

I've seen few games referencing other IP, and I have yet to see a major lawsuit happening from it.

[rotund scroll]

again you dont know if they paid fees or not

I don't know why this is even a topic of discussion

[drowsy snow]

Blatant to some, but legally fall under parody.

[drowsy snow]

Enlighten us, dear lawyer.

[rotund scroll]

you understand that I am saying err on the side of caution yes?

don't take unnecessary risks

[fierce forge]

hello, do somebody knows how i can make this smaller (the collision with the nav mesh) ?

[drowsy snow]

So we are prohibited to parody certain things, even if it barely made resemblance to the source material?

[rotund scroll]

parody requires special rules. tell me, how can you claim a location as a parody?

[drowsy snow]

Might be in the collision settings of the nav mesh? I forgot the settings.

[rotund scroll]

what exactly are you parodying? a location isn't making a statement

[drowsy snow]

By having a partially similar layout, but using own assets. That counts to you?

No?

[rotund scroll]

nope

[drowsy snow]

Okay.

[rotund scroll]

if you can somehow spin it to mean that for a location, then feel free to take on the legal system of where ever

[drowsy snow]

You're the lawyer so you'd know more about the topic than we did.

[rotund scroll]

you can't put this on me now

you said parody not me

[drowsy snow]

If I get to partially reference Doom's Hangar map, let's say the iconic room, but using ruined castle assets, then the character said something about it seem familiar, it counts as a parody, right? Or a blatant copycat?

[plush yew]

drop it guys holy

lol

2.2.c Products must not contain or be marketed using any copyrighted or trademarked names, branding, designs, materials, or content not owned by or adequately licensed to the seller. Without written permission from Epic, Epic-owned assets may not be used to create sequels or emulate, remake, remaster, or otherwise republish any games created or published by Epic; and Epic-owned trademarks, such as game titles, logos, or character names, may not be used except as permitted under Epic’s fan art policy. Reports of copyright or trademark infringement should follow the guidelines outlined in the Reporting Infringement page.```

[rotund scroll]

that's probably up to a judge to decide whether it's transformative enough or no. I would say, from the onset, no.

and again, not really a parody

[drowsy snow]

Fine then.

[drowsy snow]

Sssshhh. We debate, not report.

[plush yew]

lol

thats all epic said to me in an email btw.

[drowsy snow]

That's the muscular manly way.
/s

Yeah, TBF the submission process is strict than more open market like Gumroad

[rotund scroll]

glad you went the right way about it

[plush yew]

Friendly reminder to everyone. Make a back up of your project. Sometimes things break, like for me my blueprints just broke for no reason.

Actually, im about to set this up right now

just made 6 copys.

lol

So when i update something it auto pushed to git?

ok:)

[dense knoll]

Any idea how to get a UE4 ocean using the built in water system without using a landscape?

[rotund scroll]

put the landscape on the bottom of your water

[dense knoll]

nvm fixed

altogh the cutoff distance for the volume water is a bit short

any way to increase the falloff?

Note to self: Dont set the tessellation factor higher than 8

but yea the water looks dope its just that it looks kinda bad for a flight game when it cuts off like that

[past pilot]

Can someone tell me why I keep having issues with UE4 and Nvidia? It would only run in Vulkan for the longest time then after about 6 months of not being able to use it it just started working in DirectX again automagically. I had Nvidia Experience update the drivers yesterday and now i get teh same damn crashes. I went into Safemode and even ran DDU and then reinstalled the drivers...

nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
D3D12Core
D3D12Core
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI!FD3D12Viewport::PresentChecked() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Viewport.cpp:650]
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI!FD3D12Viewport::Present() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Viewport.cpp:866]
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI!FD3D12CommandContextBase::RHIEndDrawingViewport() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Viewport.cpp:1038]
UE4Editor_RHI!FRHICommand<FRHICommandEndDrawingViewport,FRHICommandEndDrawingViewportString1847>::ExecuteAndDestruct() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Public\RHICommandList.h:763]
UE4Editor_RHI!FRHICommandListExecutor::ExecuteInner_DoExecute() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\RHICommandList.cpp:368]
UE4Editor_RHI!FExecuteRHIThreadTask::DoTask() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\RHICommandList.cpp:429]
UE4Editor_RHI!TGraphTask<FExecuteRHIThreadTask>::ExecuteTask() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\TaskGraphInterfaces.h:886]
UE4Editor_Core!FNamedTaskThread::ProcessTasksNamedThread() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Async\TaskGraph.cpp:709]
UE4Editor_Core!FNamedTaskThread::ProcessTasksUntilQuit() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Async\TaskGraph.cpp:601]
UE4Editor_RenderCore!FRHIThread::Run() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\RenderingThread.cpp:320]
UE4Editor_Core!FRunnableThreadWin::Run() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:86]```

[dense knoll]

fug

have you tried updating your drivers?

[past pilot]

@dense knoll LOL

[plush yew]

Should try this instead 🙂

https://github.com/UE4-OceanProject/Environment-Project

good free version of something like oceanoligy.

[dense knoll]

oh cool they continued the project?

[past pilot]

@dense knoll

[plush yew]

Yeah

[dense knoll]

nice

also

what about downgrading?

[past pilot]

I can try downgrading

You would figure if it was a driver issue though everyone on th enewest driver would be crashing

[drowsy snow]

There's a note about it in pinned messages of this channel.

[dense knoll]

ok i gotta restart my PC, GPU Going haywhire

[plush yew]

This is why i went full amd 😉

[past pilot]

I satated i used DDU

stated

No beuno

[drowsy snow]

AMD is more agnostic than NVIDIA.

[drowsy snow]

There's a note about the specific version for the NVIDIA.

[past pilot]

I will try getting an older version again

[pseudo marten]

hello does anyone here worked with both Unreal Engine and Cryengine ?

are there any differents between the two ?

[prime willow]

tried to rework my movement system because it would be easier long term, not only was it harder and more buggy but i failed after 12+ hours

https://tenor.com/view/yay-yeah-happy-dance-gif-14866505

[drowsy snow]

CryEngine is ahead rendering feature wise, but not much resources for it out there.

[plush yew]

Ohhh man 😦 all that hard work.....

[prime willow]

yup

[plush yew]

Oh well at least you learned from your mistakes,.

[prime willow]

the things i suffer through to bring gamers the most lushus near sexual smoothe movement system ever seen in a combat game :3

[plush yew]

lol

[prime willow]

still need to do stylish jumps afterwards akin to mario 64 when inputs and jump are pressed :3

doesnt help i havent slept since before yesterday :/

[past pilot]

So i should be going back to 461.40?

thats a long wasy back

[plush yew]

You should def look into moveit locomotion fo rhtis

[prime willow]

nope it doesnt have the floops

[plush yew]

damn

[prime willow]

i want movement to feel and react like butter

[drowsy snow]

Yes.
NVIDIA seem to ignore the issue with the newer drivers and just roll with it.

To add insult to injury, none of AMD users reporting similar thing in this server, from what I've seen so far.

[plush yew]

i tried everything on the market place and im using a free plugin now LOL

[dense knoll]

The only issues i ever get are user errors

[prime willow]

than layer more movement systems on top of those basics like my current wall run etc

vaulting

princ eof persia like climbing etc

[plush yew]

What about vaultit?

[prime willow]

nope

[drowsy snow]

Free doesn't always mean shitty quality, after all.

[prime willow]

that wont work for semi climbing

its a 1 shot setup

ledge grab than mantle

its also in full C++

[plush yew]

I love my PB quake style movement 🙂

[prime willow]

so more annoying than need be to make changes

https://tenor.com/view/anime-dance-gojo-shoto-levi-gif-22491077

i need movement to be this buttery smoothe

regardless of direction :3

[drowsy snow]

Inb4 you make surf maps 🤭

[prime willow]

im practically there with my base

i just hate my gate based setup

for every animation state i might have to make like 16+ nodes

mostly custom events

and than make the function Zzzzz

also idk who showed me it

but strider is amazing and i have yet to buy it

one walk animation covers so many different walk in angle and such

including strafing omg~

tho i wanna get motion sympony down the line

[plush yew]

OH YOU FREAKING KNOW IT BUDDY! JUMP MAPS SURF MAPS!!! BRO ITS ALL GOING TO BE HERE lol

even the save system

for jump maps 😄

[pseudo marten]

which is better to approach ?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on your project really. I can't say for certain about CryEngine, since I have no experience with it, but you could use it if you want an absolute banger renderer. Unreal (seems to) win on the larger use base, more resources, and customisability, though IIRC CryEngine provide source code for public licencees as well.

If your project seem to benefit more with Cry, then go for it. If your project seem to benefit more with Unreal, go for it.

[pseudo marten]

it's just for learning purpose

[plush yew]

https://unigine.com/

[dense knoll]

Unigine is not as intensive as i expected it to be

[drowsy snow]

Unigine is for the more serious bois xD

[dense knoll]

and the water looks dope

[dense knoll]

^

[plush yew]

Way to complex for me

lol

[dense knoll]

same

[plush yew]

i like my blueprint system

😄

[dense knoll]

I wish UE4 has osme features that unigne had

namely the geographic data import

[plush yew]

Yeah me too

[dense knoll]

that would cut development time of my game from 1932014 quintillion years to just 159155

i really suck at making maps

unless its a ocean

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[drowsy snow]

How about Cesium? 🤔

[dense knoll]

eh

it doesent really work

i need the level to be on disk

not streamed from the cloud

and not to be curved as simulating flight physics with a curve would be too intensive

[past pilot]

461.40 gives that warning... lol

[drowsy snow]

Huh, I thought Cesium downloads the geo data, guess I was wrong.

[drowsy snow]

That's NVIDIA for you.

[dense knoll]

UPGRADE TO THIS TOTALLY NOT BROKEN VERSION

[past pilot]

Not immediately crashing anymore, thanks

[drowsy snow]

At least Red and Blu doesn't have much concern about drivers lol

[dense knoll]

btw excel the ocean project doesent really work with ue4.27 anymore

[drowsy snow]

Compilation errors?

[dense knoll]

no it just doesent load

it compiles

but no load

back to the built in system

[drowsy snow]

Describe "no load".

[dense knoll]

althogh i still cant find a way to increase the falloff distance

the water just doesent load

[drowsy snow]

Might worth asking about it in the dedicated discord server.

[drowsy snow]

Might be related to your issue, from the discord server

[dense knoll]

the plugin compat with Playstation?

[drowsy snow]

Maybe? Try it yourself. It's open source, so compatibility with consoles aren't guaranteed out of the box.

[dense knoll]

i have the preview renderer set as PS5 so im guessing not

cant find an option to increase the scale of the water

[dusk nebula]

How would I create an input buffer for mouse 1 that isn't just full auto?

[rotund scroll]

use a hasFired bool to check, then set hasFired to true. on release set it to false

@dusk nebula

[plush yew]

Two days trying to figure out this Hand IK crap.

😦 its finally over

YEAH BABY!!!!

[carmine stone]

hi

https://gyazo.com/89b9c8a1aca418fe45c6b31986586382

I get this error when I activate the multi user editing plugin in the engine version compiled from source.

[dusk nebula]

Am I wrong for assuming that casting isn't that big of a performance hit? I started off thinking that it would be a noticeable loss when I cast for things like damage events, but now I'm casting like 20 times per second above 300 fps when packaged

[neon bough]

depends on what you cast

personally i don't get why casting is implemented in a way that it can slow down stuff

[dusk nebula]

Without know much about the engine, I'd say that it taking some compute time is unavoidable. That's why it's an execute pin node and not whatever the non-execute ones are called

My understanding of the functionality of casting is that it just checks if the in reference inherits and then creates an out reference that's basically a copy of the inherited version

[dusk nebula]

And do you mean that the number of classes cast through can make a difference? I usually only cast as far as I need, anyway, but I wasn't sure if this is the case

[neon bough]

you can convert it to a pure cast tho, the reason that it's executable is to have a check if the cast succeed by default

and the reason it can get slow is, that someone told me that it has to check the whole object and it's items (which imho doesn't make sense to do in the first place, but according to some 3rd party it is how it's done)

hard references in that class are apparently also loaded

[hollow moat]

Can anyone recommend a nice workflow for creating buildings and interiors?

I can't do it at all, it all just goes to shit every time lmao

This took me an hour

[sweet jacinth]

hello, I made an artificial intelligence coding, I map and reproduce this artificial intelligence actor manually, but 1 artificial intelligence follows what they are doing, they all play animation at the same time, how can I prevent this?

[dusk nebula]

Is there a setting or something for that? I've seen the non-execute cast node before and don't know if it's worth looking into

[neon bough]

iirc just rightclick the cast and chose convert to pure

[plush yew]

hey for some reason when i try to destroyactor on an item it only destroys it for the server not for the client, what am i doing wrong here?

i tried to make custom event to destroy it on client and other similar things and none of it worked

multicast also didnt

[half lance]

anyone else encountering an issue with UE4.27 where every time you boot the game editor (be it integrated viewport or separate window), you get less fps than the previous boot?

It's easy to fix as all I have to do is save everything and reboot UE but it kinda gets tiring and time consuming

[hollow moat]

Is the API of the C++ libraries the same as the blueprints? Or are they fundamentally different?

[half lance]

if you're replying to me, I'm still in early prototyping so for now I haven't touched C++ on this project. I assume that it should be by default, correct?

[placid fossil]

Hey can someone help me, im having 2 issues, one is that my camera has a shadow following infront of it (only in the camera view not outside of the camera) the second problem is that as the camera moved through the scene my grass foliage pops in (not all of it just random bunches of grass)

Im new to unreal but been using blender for 2 years, making the switch as high detailed environments are just easier to make and render however these issues are kinda animation breaking…. I looked at every fix i could find and none worked except removing my shadows completely

[night oar]

Hi guys I wanted to know that who can I add NFT to the ether linker wallet I created as I am able to create and load a wallet but I am unable to add anything to that wallet. I am using etherlinker and ue4 4.26

[spare kernel]

@night oar ask the plugin creator.

[night oar]

where can i find him 😁 😁

oh now i get what you mean thx i will try tha

that

[compact cloud]

Hi, can somebody help me understand why my gray scale masks are coming in red in UE4?

[drowsy snow]

Because (true) greyscale images only have one colour channel, and Unreal interpret it as R8, hence the red colour. In contrast to full colour image with alpha channel, which Unreal interpret it as RGBA8.

You don't need to do anything about it as it is completely normal.

[broken spire]

Hey again, trying to download quixel, but I'm running on unreal engine 4.21 and it supports 4.22+ so I'm stuck trying to look for older versions of the plugins. Any ideas? https://help.quixel.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360014414098-Bridge-for-UE2-21- this is the thread I found, but their links are outdated

well their links have been updated to the latest versions of the plugins lol

then right after I wrote all this I found this link https://help.quixel.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360014131978-What-s-new-in-Bridge-2020-4

never mind everyone I think this is going to work xD

[drowsy snow]

Maybe there's an archive for the older version? I don't know if the github repo is still up or not

[broken spire]

Yeah I'm currently looking for the plugin still

[compact cloud]

I must be doing something wrong then because this is the result I get. But when I saved it as 8 bit, instead of the 16 bit that GAEA puts out, it imported as grayscale. But I dont want to do that for every mask I created. So no clue what is happening

[broken spire]

I got it to work!! Did some digging around inside the 2020 version and there's an option in the export to install it.

[drowsy snow]

Seems like your material is to blame. You can just use the R channel from the texture sampler.

[placid fossil]

Hey can someone help me, im having 2 issues, one is that my camera has a shadow following infront of it (only in the camera view not outside of the camera) the second problem is that as the camera moved through the scene my grass foliage pops in (not all of it just random bunches of grass)

Im new to unreal but been using blender for 2 years, making the switch as high detailed environments are just easier to make and render however these issues are kinda animation breaking…. I looked at every fix i could find and none worked except removing my shadows completely

[drowsy snow]

I'm not sure about the shadows, but you should make LODs for your grasses.

[plush yew]

Question, do hidden things in editor cook / package ?? 🤔

or perhaps i tick "Is Editor only actor" ?

[neon bough]

the later

[amber shuttle]

they do

the things thats not in the editor but just referenced in any used blueprint also package

idk about editor only actor , it might package too

[plush yew]

Thanks for the insight

[shadow ravine]

I'm using ALS on my character and for some reason the camera keeps jumping occasionally. Anyone know what might be causing this? https://youtu.be/GbGrMLVB0Ss

[drowsy valley]

Hey uh - what's the equivalent of a Rigidbody(unity) in unreal?

[copper pier]

So I made a 3rd person project, I am trying to clean up the file structure and if I move the 3rd person BP I get this error, I have gone in with VS and edited my game mode and changed the directory to the new location but i still get this error on start up. Anyone have any ideas?

[carmine stone]

Where can I find the game design documents of Metin2 game? Including game presentation, promotion and concept?

[shadow ravine]

Are you doing this in the engine or your file explorer?

[copper pier]

in the engine, I advanced copied the files then deleted the old.

everything else works but i get that error on startup every time

[shadow ravine]

Try checking through your project settings, make sure everything matches up to your new directories. Might just be missing a update in there

[azure topaz]

can someone help me

so when i try to get HUDCanvas as by him, its doesnt pop up, and his heads up display doesnt have nothing,

on my heads up display its character sheet,and it does have border char sheet inside, and when i try to connect my heads up display(CharacterSheet) with add child, its wont work

i get this error here

someone help pls

[drowsy valley]

Yo, what component do I use for only rendering a mesh without any physics or collision

[azure topaz]

can someone help pls

[tender pecan]

You can use s StatcMeshComponent, just leave physics as NoCollision

[shadow ravine]

I'll try workout how the ALS camera is handling the collisions if I can

[azure topaz]

im trying to get a HUDCanvas panel as a target BP

so i can connect it to the add a chill BP, target object

@shadow ravine yea, its a widget

[drowsy valley]

like this, right

[drowsy valley]

I am trying to use a box collider as the main collider.

But I can't figure out why Physics won't apply to the BoxCollider

this is my object structure

[drowsy valley]

The mesh is this

[azure topaz]

can someone pls help

i dont know how can i fix it

[drowsy valley]

I've set the box colliders physics on

yet it doesn't change anything

[winged oak]

Hello everyone, Am new here. Please can you explain the tools I need to use unreal engine for development.

[drowsy valley]

these are the colliders

[tender pecan]

And the box collider collision profile? (oh nvm I see tis on)
also, is this UE5? the UI looks weird/different

[drowsy valley]

Oh yeah, it's UE5. But I thought the problem isn't UE5 specific

[tender pecan]

Probably not. I mean nothing jumps out at me. 🙂

[azure topaz]

thanks for ignoring help...

[drowsy valley]

I'm transitioning over from unity and thought I'd just start using UE5

[drowsy valley]

But the static mesh component shouldn't interfer, right?

[tender pecan]

Not if Physics disabled, and set to not collide, although the mesh is not connected to the box. have you turned on physics debug? and see whats happening to the box?

[drowsy valley]

Hmm, no, where do I enable the physics debug?

Also, is there a way to inspect the scene in the editor while runtime?

[tender pecan]

I think its ShowPhysics or something, access from the console

while PIE

[drowsy valley]

I honestly can't find it

[tender pecan]

The console?

[drowsy valley]

the command

[plush yew]

I am having an issues updating my pose per gun. It keeps messing up the hand positing.

[plush yew]

anyone know why this is not working?

[tender pecan]

try: Hit the ` (back tick/tilda key) to bring up the console input box. Enter one of the following commands: show COLLISION - This will draw all collision

[drowsy valley]

yeah, that works

but it's even weirder

the box collider doesn't seem to properly be attached to my object

[tender pecan]

Yep. 🙂

[drowsy valley]

I suppose the BoxCollider would need to be in place of my root object?

[tender pecan]

Now you are getting it. 😉

[drowsy valley]

Oh thanks 👍.

[tender pecan]

Just keep in mind, it does not have to be root, but in a lot of cases it should.

[drowsy valley]

One more thing tho - is there a way to navigate the scene while "pie" is running?

[tender pecan]

In ue4: Press F8, this will unposses

UE5 , who knows

[drowsy valley]

F8 works, that's perfect

I nearly thought that just wasn't a thing ._.

[tender pecan]

You are trying to connect a canvas panel as a child blueprint.
This is not possible.
As a canvas panel is a UMG Widget and a blueprint is not really related to each other.

But I see they are helping you in BP channel. 👍

[azure topaz]

if its not possible, then how is it possible by him?

[tender pecan]

Rather let them help you in BP channel, else we got 2 chats going for the same issue here

[plush yew]

I put it in my 3rd person gun and not my FP gun

oops

lol

[drowsy valley]

great, I tried changing the root component and now I'm stuck in a crashloop

[tender pecan]

try #ue5-general ?

[drowsy valley]

👍

I think for now I'll just stash the git changes

[plush yew]

Fp gun stores information and model, 3rd person gun stores animations, gun data, and client side visual effects. prevents cheats in my opinion doing it like this

imagine trying to figure this out xD

The FP gun is what the client will see

but the 3P gun has the information 😄

I mean its simple to me because i created the system

i understand how it works

lol

[noble linden]

i just bought outriders and ive been trying to launch it for over an hour now and it just keeps saying there is an unreal engine crash my drivers are up to date i have no idea what the issue is can anyone assist?

[plush yew]

nope

[noble linden]

dang ight ive tried going to outriders discord but its dead

[plush yew]

this is an engine game dev channel you need to find out from reddit or something

lol

[noble linden]

ah sorry about that thats my bad lol

[plush yew]

all good man

[fierce forge]

hello, do somebody knows how i can resolve this flickering when the units are moving ?

[drowsy valley]

Is "tick" equal to "FixedUpdate" or to "Update"?

as in - can I execute physics in tick?

[drowsy valley]

Oh, there actually is a dedicated page, awesome

[drowsy valley]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Physics/AddForceatLocation/

does this function exist with local space?

I think it's very odd that the location is treated in world space

nvm

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Physics/AddForceatLocationLocal/

this exists

I didn't expect that

I'm just gonna use tick for now 👍

[amber mantle]

I have a data limit of 10gb per day
I am trying to install unreal engine
And of course it's 13gb!!

So i downloaded the 10gb and paused the installation.
And shutdown the pc and clicked "resume" the next day.
But it says we are sorry looks like we are having trouble connecting.
So i canceled and remove the installation.
And then started all over again, but its still the same problem.
What should i do?
Please ping me when someone responds

[frozen stratus]

if you pause download of something in any app, you definitely shouldn't close the app and computer between but keep the app open. And you could always time your download so that the day limit counter will reset during the download.. as in the day will change to next one while you are downloading

[grizzled axle]

maybe you could download the source from github and compile it yourself?

[plush yew]

still downloads from internet

[grizzled axle]

yes, but its smaller

less than 10gb

[frozen stratus]

the source download has a shell script that has to download more than 10gb

i just did that few days ago for few builds

[grizzled axle]

oh, didnt know that, rip

[dense knoll]

how do you enable ocean foam?

Nvm

now its everywhere

[shadow ravine]

I'm trying to add a particle to my hit actors bone when hit by my line trace, but I can't work out what to connect to the Attach to Component socket. Any ideas?

[paper cobalt]

got what you asked for...eh????

[plush yew]

hmm

holdon

let me look at my other project

i got a refence to the player bp of the child it was hitting

and used a physical material, that covered the player lol

[clever harbor]

Hi, can I still become a game developer even i'm sucks with art & 3D modeling? I like doing coding btw instead of art & 3D models.

[plush yew]

never made one single 3d object in my life. I buy em all from the asset store lol

[shadow ravine]

Anyone know how I can remove this bright glare on my water material when looking down at it

I want to get it like this, but this is only visible when looking up and you can still see the glare on the sides which is still kinda an issue

[shadow ravine]

Of course you can, anyone can become a game developer if they're willing to put the effort in; in order to learn the necessary skill to do so. In your particular case, you have one of the very looked for skills under your belt that is always taken into consideration when hiring a games developer. If they have 3D modeling skills as well as game dev they're going to be the better candidate to others that lack in that area

[plush yew]

Does this hand positioning look weird?

[clever harbor]

Damn bro lmao

[clever harbor]

Thanks bro understood 🙏

[signal zodiac]

change reflection method maybe?

the "glare" is a result of the edge fading on screenspace reflections

[clever harbor]

Yo bro btw, Did u have any problem when running UE in windows 11 ?

[plush yew]

Never anything wrong. The only issue is, you need to disable multithreading or your FPS in ANYTHING will be shit.

[clever harbor]

Ah I see, thanks!

[shadow ravine]

Just turned of all screenspace reflections but still getting the same results 🤔

[signal zodiac]

have you tried planar reflections

theyre resource intensive but they can give the best look

alternatively you can play with the skylight as that is what the water is reflecting when there is no data within screenspace

[plush yew]

try a post process volume.

[signal zodiac]

alternatively again you can place reflection captures around your scene

[placid fossil]

Umm how do i do that…. Also im using the grass from the desert pack in qixel bridge

[signal zodiac]

try reflection captures

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: xMellox#2224 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[copper pier]

quick question, Im trying to make UI widgets but when I put a text box everything is invisible. it has no texture.

[shadow ravine]

I think it was the skylight as that was the only source of light I was using so it's intensity was on 30, I've lowered it back down to 1 and put a directional light back in but I'm finding it difficult to get the night lighting to look right now

I might just have to change it to a day scene instead 🤷‍♂️

[signal zodiac]

use reflection captures (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[shadow ravine]

I did try that first and it made it look better but still didn't resolve it

[signal zodiac]

oh

theres always a solution though

[shadow ravine]

I hope so, just seems like when ever I attempt a night scene the lights are never quite right, there's always something throwing it out somehow

[signal zodiac]

have you tried searching for like night scene tutorials so you can get the atmosphere and lighting ideal?

[shadow ravine]

Yeah I've followed a few now but none of them really get too in-depth they all have just covered the basics. I don't know, I might just have to start reading the documentations or something

[signal zodiac]

what you could possibly do is make it bright and then under expose the camera

via post processing

[plush yew]

Post process volume....

[oak sequoia]

Hey guys, Ive been looking around everywhere on google and following the settings they gave, but for some reason I can get any shadows on mobile or mobile preview, they are there on pc view but when i change to mobile they dissapear, I have all the shadow options for mobile enabled in project settings, does anyone know why its happening?

[plush yew]

#mobile

[bitter iris]

on the character bp, how would i randomise the materials on the skeletal mesh? tryna find info on google but not much info

[shadow ravine]

Create a integer variable name it RandomMeshMaterial or something. Then use what ever type of event you want to make the randomize function run. Then when it's triggered set your variable up to random in range. Set min to 1 max to however many materials you have (X). Then use that variable to update the material on the mesh using branch conditioning with the number of RandomMeshMaterial equaling 1 to X and setting the matching materials and set this up for X materials as you need.

[tame dust]

Have you guys seen this:

https://mudstack.com/

[fallow jackal]

How do you select everything inside view? i tried drawing a square to select a house made of multiple objects using CTRL + ALT to draw square, but it only selects object you see, i want even the hidden ones behind

[shadow ravine]

CTRL + A

[fallow jackal]

i dont want to select everything in the level, i want to select only a house, but its made of many actors